SSL Certificates

[morrowc.lists at gmail.com (Christopher Morrow)]

On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 8:33 AM, John R. Levine <johnl at iecc.com> wrote:
>> I suppose if you buy a SSL certificate, ?you should be looking for
>> your CA to have insurance to reimburse the cost of the certificate
>> should that happen, ? and an ironclad ? "refund" ?clause in the
>> agreement/contract ?under which a SSL cert is issued
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> These certs cost $9.00. ?You're not going to get much of an insurance policy
> at that price.

again, startssl.com - free. why pay? it's (as you say) not actually
buying you anything except random bits anyway... if you can get them
for free, why would you not do that?